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I don't know if anyone else is still reading this thread, probably not. But
I'll add something, in case someone looks her again, and is interested.
There are a couple places where I have still seen non-preserved saline,
although it is a lot less prevalent than before.
1)The boxes of 3 4oz squeeze bottles of non-preserved saline. As I
mentioned, I ordered some from CVS.com (their store generic brand) at $4.99
per bottle. Although I had also ordered their canned aerosol saline, and
that part of the order was cancelled, as they don't have it in stock, they
did have the boxed squeeze bottles, and I have received them.
Amazon.com has the Unisol brand of this, at $5.08 per box. Although 9 cents
more per box, it could be a better deal for many, as they have "free
shipping" with a minimum order of $25.00, while CVS requires a minimum order
of $49 for free shipping. (Also, CVS charges sales tax here in CA, Amazon
does not.)
Wal-mart (actual stores, not web site) also has the Unisol brand of this for
$5.08 per box.
2) Canned aerosol type. Much more rare. Occasionally I see the Amo Lens Plus
brand in a store (one can or so) at over $7, highly priced. But---Wal-Mart
(again, only at stores, not listed on their web site) continues to sell
their "Equate brand of this for $1.88 per bottle, by far the cheapest
non-preserved saline solution. When my local Wal-mart didn't have it for a
few weeks, I thought they had phased it out too. I asked the OTC manager
about it. Finally it came back, and it seems to be regularly stocked, at
least until I get there, because when I go there, once every week or two
weeks, I buy up all they have, fearing that it may not last. Then I come
back a week or two later, thinking they probably won't have it any more, and
it is fully stocked again, and I buy it all up again. (So, if you go to the
same Wal-Mart store that I do, you might never find it in stock, if you get
there after me! ;-)) (Don't ask me which store! (LOL) (People always look
at my cart strangely too--why is this guy buying so many bottles at once of
contact lens solution? ;-) ) (I guess now that their stock is always bought
out completely, that store keeps re-stocking it. I wasn't going during the
summer, when I was never near that store, and perhaps they stopped stocking
it then, which is why they didn't have it when I first came back)
I don't know if I should be telling people about this, because if they have
stopped producing it, and the warehouse only has a limited supply which will
run out at some time, and not be replenished, I shouldn't let people know
about it, to compete with me for the remaining stock! ;-) However, if that
is not the case, more people buying more cans of it will increase the
likelihood of is continued production, that they don't stop making it, as
seems to have happened with all brands of the stuff.
One other note--I once tried one of the new kind of preserved saline
solutions, Ciba Softwear, and it also wasn't bad for pouring large amounts
directly in the eyes for washing them out. (Although I still prefer
non-preserved. Even more so for the nose.) When I have tried other brands of
normal preserved saline directly in the eyes like that, even some that say
"for sensitive eyes", I usually find them much less comfortable. But
Softwear wasn't bad, to use for that purpose.
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